[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #321: pulseaudio continually locks up my GNOME desktop

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#321: pulseaudio continually locks up my GNOME desktop
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  Reporter:  jstedfast  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  highest    |   Milestone:         
 Component:  daemon     |    Severity:  blocker
Resolution:             |    Keywords:         
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Comment (by coling):

 Replying to [comment:7 caetano]:
 > The problem is because pulseaudio gets exclusive access to soundcard,
 > in this way programs that uses others api will hang waiting to write
 access on the soundcard.

 This really doesn't make any sense as:
  1. Pulse let's go of the soundcard when it's not needed (suspend-on-idle)
  2. If you enable pulse then you should be enabling all the ways in which
 pulse can integrate with other sound systems such as:
    * Enable alsa-pulse plugin
    * Use padsp when launching oss applications
    * Configuring applications to use native pulse support when available

 If you enable these things and set things up correctly, no other api will
 be actually talking to the h/w directly but will actually be going through
 pulse.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/321#comment:8>
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